Thewenties brought a rush of new inventions and manufacturing techniques . • Cars became commonplace and people began to move about among all regions of the country. • Radios, movies, an abundance of national products all helped to turn America into a greedily consuming society.
• "The Jazz Age" was as much a slick marketing campaign as it was a social revolution. • Girls were spending hundreds of dollars the get the right "flapper" look (in the 1920s this was worth upwards of $1000). .
1920s Music: Jazz Was America's Gift To the Musical World!
King OliverLeader of "The Creole Jazz" Band
Louis Armstrong ---The Greatest Soloist of All Time!
The effect of the First World War
• The “Twenties”, lasted from the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 until the Crash at the end of 1929. • These ten years were a time of carefree prosperity, isolation from the world’s problems, bewildering social change and a feverish pursuit of pleasures.